Milk Punch
40ml Hine VSOP Cognac
20ml Angostura 7 Year Old
15ml pimento dram
10ml sugar syrup
60ml milk
Shake all ingredients with ice. Strain into a large bar glass, and garnish with grated nutmeg.
Milk Punch is a popular morning-after style of drink in New Orleans — and it’s perfect for the Christmas break. You might wake up a little bleary-eyed on Boxing Day — perhaps feeling like you’ve been boxed about the head — or you’ve outdone yourself New Year’s Eve and are still reeling a few days later. Either way, you’re going to need a recipe that is equal parts easy to make and delicious to drink.
Milk Punch goes back along way (the first written account of it was taken down in the 1600’s according Dave Wondrich). But that milky preparation is considerably more involved in this one. You could prepare it in advance, though: milk when added to punch will curdle, and once you’ve collected the curdled milk from the top and fine strained the mixture your milk punch will keep for some time.
But at Christmas time you’ve probably spent hours prepping everything else and haven’t thought ahead to the hangover cure.
Perhaps stick this recipe to your bar fridge door, as we’re sure some of you will need it.